Jim Carrey Returns to Television with ‘Kidding’

After nearly 25 years, Jim Carrey is returning to television as a series regular in Showtime’s Kidding.

Jim Carrey has made cameo appearances in tv series such as The Office and 30 Rock but has not been a series regular since being a cast member on In Living Color in 1994.

Carrey will portray Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, an icon of children’s television, a beacon of kindness and wisdom to America’s impressionable young minds, who also anchors a multimillion-dollar branding empire. But when Jeff’s family begins to implode, he finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through the crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.

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It’s definitely more of an experimental looking project for Carrey, which seems to be his thing as of late. If you are a fan of Carrey’s I would suggest that you watch the documentary Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond on Netflix. It’s a very good documentary on his time filming Man on the Moon, the Andy Kaufman biopic. It shows the mind state that Jim Carrey has been in for the past few years.

Kidding stars Jim Carrey, Judy Greer, Catherine Keener, Cole Allen, and Bernard White. The series premieres on Showtime September 9 at 10/9C.